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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. HENNION, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,055, dated July 12, 1881,

Application filed March 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Posr HEN- NION, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring Bed- Bottoms, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to make a spring bed-bottom that will be suitable and adjustable to bedsteads of any width, from the narrowest to the widest, by opening or closing one or more sections, as hereinafter specified, and as shown on Figures 1 and 3 of the I 5 accompanying drawings, each and every section to be adjustable or compressible independently of every other section by means of two or more pairs of sliding cross-braces, b b b b, to each section, which move on pivots on clamps c c c, which are riveted to the slats a a a, as shown on drawings, Fig. 1. These sliding cross-braces are united at the centers by a rivet, forming a swivel-joint, h h. The braces then connect at the other ends with the opposite slats by means of round pins at the ends of the braces, which slide back and forth in grooves or slots in grooved slide-staples d d d, which are riveted to the slats a a a, as shown on drawings, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, as the sections are opened or closed. There is to be a screw at the end of the pin, with a thumb-nut to screw on, so as to fasten the brace at any angle that may be desired. Each section is held firmly open by one or more hinged hasps, f, which are riveted to the slat, and fastens to the next slat. by a hook, m, which is attached to the hasp, hooking into a staple, as shown on Fig. 1. The hasp turns up out of the way when a section is closed, and the slats may be hooked together by the hook e,'which is attached to the stationary part of the hasp. The next slat slides under the hasp and the staple enters into a hole or socket in the base of the hasp, made for the purpose, and is hooked to the hook e.

The sections may be held firmly open by hooks 9, instead of the hasps, and the closed sections held together by small hooks i.

Fig. 1 shows a part of two sections of a spring bed-bottom, (without the springs,) one sectionopened and the other closed, and shows the manner of opening and. closing by means of the slidin gcross-braces, slide-staples, hinged hasps, and hooks and staples.

Fig. 2 shows a side view of a cross-brace, b, with a thumb-nut, n, to screw on the upright pin, so as to fasten the brace at any angle that may be desired. It also shows a side view of a slide-staple, d, riveted to a slat, a. It also shows a bottom, side, and end view of a pivotclamp, (full size,) 0. It also shows a part of two sections of a spring bed-bottom (without the springs) held in position by hooks, one section held firmly open by the hook g, the other section held firmly closed by the hook t.

Fig. 3 shows a spring bed-bottom opened, with the springs and all the parts which go to make the bed-bottom as claimed by me. It also shows a bed'bottom closed or compressed.

1 claim as my invention- A spring bed-bottom that is adjustable and compressible by means of sliding cross-braces, slide-staples, pivot-clamps, hasps, and hooks and staples, as shown on drawings, and as described in the foregoing specification.

WM. 1?. HENNION.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. SEAMAN, I. E. SrUoKnY. 

